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Giannoulias Trails Kirk In Latest Fundraising But Leads Overall Senate Money Race

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.06.2009 | Chicago

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State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias reported Tuesday his campaign raised $1.1 million in the third quarter of 2009 and has $2.4 million on hand in the r...

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David Hoffman Reports Raising $900,000 For Senate Run

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago

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Democratic Senate candidate David Hoffman reported Monday that he has raised $905,137 in the month since announcing his candidacy for the seat current...

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Mark Kirk Reports Big Money Haul In Senate Race

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago

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Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk said Monday he has raised $1.6 million in the past three months and has $2.3 million in his campaign coffers in ...

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Ditka Endorses Hughes Over Kirk In Senate Race

Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago

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Da Coach isn't backing the favorite. Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, a longtime conservative who stumped with Sara Palin during the 2008 presidential ...

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Mark Kirk Slams SEIU Over ACORN, Despite Taking Money From Union

Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago

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U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk, a Republican Senate candidate, said Monday the Census Bureau should drop any involvement with the Service Employees International...

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Abner Mikva Not Endorsing Seals Or Hamos In Kirk Replacement Race, Despite Claim

Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago

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It turns out that a big endorsement by former congressman and appellate court justice Abner Mikva for Congress in the north suburban 10th District isn...

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Mark Kirk's Support Shaky Among Conservatives: Rival Poll

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago

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There are chinks in Mark Kirk's conservative armor, but are there enough to keep the Republican Congressman from winning his party's 2010 Senate nomin...

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Cheryle Jackson Lands National Endorsement After Making Senate Bid Official (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago

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Cheryle Robinson Jackson earned the endorsement of a powerful women's political group Thursday, just one day after officially launching her campaign f...

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Mark Kirk Flip-Flops Mid-Speech After Boos (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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The Plum Line's Greg Sargent pulls video from a GOP Rally in DuPage County, Illinois, that features GOP Representative and would-be Illinois Senator M...

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Julie Hamos Lands Emily's List Endorsement In Kirk Replacement Race

Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

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State Rep. Julie Hamos (D-Evanston) landed the endorsement of one of the country's most powerful women's political groups Tuesday in her bid to succee...

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One Year Later: The Lessons of a Failed Economic Philosophy

Alexi Giannoulias | Posted 11.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Wall Street Bailout, Illinois Senate 2010, Mark Kirk, Economic Crisis, Senate Races, Laissez-Faire, Financial Crisis, Illinois Senate Race, Recession, Bush Tax Cuts, Chicago News

We are no more insulated from a financial crisis today than we were one year ago. Congress has not changed a single rule, habit or practice to stop this economic calamity from happening again.

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Mark Kirk Booed At Republican Events

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Buried in an article on upcoming Senate elections comes the news that Illinois GOP hopeful Mark Kirk has been jeered at party events. Kirk faces a be...

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David Hoffman Officially Kicks Off Senate Campaign

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.10.2009 | Chicago

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Former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman officially launched his campaign to replace Roland Burris as Illinois' junior Senator Thursday, stressi...

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Senate Race Roundup: Dart Not Running, Hoffman Lands Endorsements

Huffington Post | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will not cave to national Democrats who have been urging him to run for the U.S. Senate and will instead seek re-election...

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Senate Candidate Giannoulias Backs Gay Marriage

Chicago Sun-Times | Mark Brown | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

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Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias said Wednesday he favors legalization of same-sex marriage and, if elected, would seek to repeal a federal law that...

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Immigration Remarks Land Mark Kirk On A Condom In New Ads

Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

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A two-year-old comment from U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk suggesting that condoms could help reduce the illegal immigration of Mexicans to America is again an i...

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Congressman Kirk's Immigrant Blind Spot May Cost Him Dearly

Joshua Hoyt | Posted 10.16.2009 | Chicago

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Outright anti-immigrant demagoguery reminiscent of the failed campaigns of Republican perennial candidate Jim Oberweis is surprising, perhaps even shocking, from Congressman Kirk.

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Mark Kirk's Big Health Care Reform Idea is to Create Huge National Insurance Monopolies That Are Fully Deregulated

Ellen Gill | Posted 09.29.2009 | Eyes & Ears

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Kirk wants to replace the entire body of state regulatory law with some minimum plan standards that will not be enforced, as there will be no enforcement body to do it.

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Hundreds Pack Kirk-Led Town Hall, Police Turn Away Dozens More

Daily Herald | Madhu Krishnamurthy and Deborah Donovan | Posted 09.25.2009 | Chicago

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Hundreds of area residents packed the Arlington Heights village hall boardroom this afternoon to debate health care reform at a town-hall meeting led ...

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Mark Kirk To Host Health Care Townhall

Daily Herald | Russell Lissau | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

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As the battle over President Obama's health care reform plan continues to roil, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk today will hold the Northwest suburbs' first town ...

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Tom Dart For Senate? Anxious Democrats Reportedly Courting Sheriff To Challenge Kirk

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

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It's been a rough week for the Democrats hoping to take over President Obama's former Senate seat from retiring incumbent Roland Burris. First, a Ras...

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Illinois Immigrant Action: Pushing for Solutions, Not Senseless Deportations

Joshua Hoyt | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago

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Although President Obama speaks passionately about the need for comprehensive immigration reform, actions speak louder than words. Here are nine powerful actions that will press to get reform done.

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Republicans Roy Blunt and Mark Kirk Mislead on Health Care

Senate Guru | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2010 Senate, Republican Lies, Mo-Sen, Mark Kirk, Il-Sen, Roy Blunt, Politics News

There are two current Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are running for seats in the U.S. Both have been telling easy-to-debunk lies in the health care debate.

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Seals Leads Hamos In Democratic Primary For Kirk's House Seat: Poll

The Fix | Chris Cillizza | Posted 09.10.2009 | Chicago

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Dan Seals, the Democratic nominee against Rep. Mark Kirk (R) in 2006 and 2008, holds a wide lead in the 2010 Democratic primary, according to a survey...

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